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THE WAR.

GERMAN TROOPS DEFINITELY

CHECKED.

BRIGHTER REPORTS FROM THE FRONT.

GOVERNMENT'S OFFER TO

IRELAND.

ASKED TO RAISE FIFTY THOUSAND RECRUITS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 8TH, 1918

Branco-Belgian Front.

The threat on Paris has intensified the

EARLIER CABLES. [TEROVOH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BRITISH FRONT.

A SUCCESSFUL OPERATION.

LONDON, June 3rd. 10.20 p.m.

Field-Marshal Bir Douglas Haig re

ports:--The French repulsed

ed raids north-

ward of Bailleul.

The total prisoners taken in the success ful operation on June 2nd south-eastward of Struzeale waa 288. We also captured an unti-tank gun, 30 machine guns and several trench-mortars.

AERIAL OPERATIONS.

LONDON, June 3rd.

4.45 p.1.

Italian Front.

EARLIER CABLES: [HROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY

AERIAL WARFARE.

LONDON, June 4th/

A British Italian official report states: Since May zith our naroplanes have destroyed 14 enemy machines and drove down another uncontrollable. One British machine has not returned.

Aerial Activities,

EARLIER CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

A BRITISH DENTAL

LONDON, June "4th."

3.45 p.

The Press Bureau announce thats con trary to the statement attributed by the German wireless to a captured English medical student, the Admiralty state that no munitions were ever carried on the Western Australia or any other British hospital ship.

ODDS AND ENDS. BATTLE STORIES FROM THE WEST FRONT.

A FINE TALE OF THE SEA, Tributes have been paid from time to time to the work which is being done by our merchant seamen, but it is only very Occasionally that the veil is lifted and we From the papers you'd think that are presented with an incident on which there wasn't much doing on the front," the imagination can feed, From the said a wounded infantryman, but you usually arid surroundings of the High can take it from me that we chaps in Court the Admiralty Court, to particu-

can't afford to slacken down a single men and women, as well as children, good the trenches are always pretty busy. You larisa atory reaches us which it will do

minute, for the fellows that get careless to reade It loses nothing because the are sure to cop it

narrator huppens to be a judge, a trained We had a corporal in our battalion lawyer to whom exaggeration is abhor- that was always lecturing us on taking rent, but gaire rather from the cool and chances. He had been out three years, deliberate manner in which the sequence LONDON, June 3rd.

off and on, and had two Blighties in at of events is presented. The narrative of Although the numbers of pilgrims and tacks, so he knew what he was talking the attack upon the three-masted steel spectators have unturally diminished about He was a good non con.one of sailing ship, the merciless treatment of owing to the war, this year's Neby Musa the best But one day he did what he the crew, and her subsequent salvage; con- Pilgrimage will remain forever memor-

was always warning ngeinst. Hestitutes a romance, and Mr. Justice Hill

A MEMORABLE PILGRIMAGE

patriotism of the citizens, and the NAVAL AIRCRAFT ACTIVITY able. It augured wall for the future of

Socialists, hitherto at loggerheads with

the Government, have announced their intention of doing everything to support the Government.

EARLIER CABLES,

GERMAN REPORTS.

LONDON, June 3rd.

4:05 p.14.

A wireless German official report, issued this evening, states:-Fresh progress was made south-westward of Boissons.

LATER.

We drove back the enemy towards Moulin-sous-Touvey, St. Christophe and Vingre, and we captured Chaudin.

We pushed across the Savires territory us far as the castern border of Villers Cottereis woods, and repulsed violent recounter-attacks southward of the Ourcq. We captured Belin, also the heights west- ward of Chateau Thierry,

Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig Ports:Our acroplanes dropped 18 tons of bombs and heavily machine-gunned great variety of targets.

We destroyed eight machines in air. fighting and drove down. 14 uncontrol able

Three British machines are missing.

We dropped & tons of bombs last night

FRENCH FRONT. ENEMY ATTACK WITH REDOUBLED VIOLENCE

AR18, June 4th.

A communiqué states:-The battle was

LONDON, June 3rd. The Admiralty announce: Between Thursday and Sunday Naval aircraft carried out night and day roads on Bruges Dock Zeebrugge and Ostend.

Boraral tons of beavy bombs were drop ped on objectives, with good results.

Photographs confirm that great damage

Palestine when, through some happy in spiration, representatives of all

the religious bodies in Jerusalem were united to meet the Governor and the principal Mohammedan families on the slopes of the Mount of Olives. Not a great way off were the Tombs of the Prophets, the resting places of those followers of Moses whom Christians, Mohammedans

has placed the community under an ob ligation by setting it forth with charac teristic lucidity and a breadth of sym the son of Mr. Birkbeck Hill The vessel pathy which were to bunexpected from was on her way to Great Britain with a cargo of grain valued at £63,715, when she was intercepted by a German sub- marine. The crew, under the usual to leave the ship the period being the duress, were given five minutes in which measure of the humanity shown by son

men

stuck his head and shoulders over the parapot. He copped one in the shoulder from a sniper. I don't know what made phim do a silly thing like that I heard from one of the chups that there was a queer noise like a tin can rattling in front and he was curious about it

Result: one in the shoulder that he'll the dressing station, he reminded me of fcel

all his life. When we got him to the fellow that was to be hanged. He said, This will be

I ran up against an officer of the

lesson to me f FC on the way home he was a walk ing case too. We got talking about care can get careless in the air just as in the fired, and without further ceremony the trenches, and he said that his wound was men were forced to take to a boat. The

He told me that he submarine continued to bombard the mer the result of it.

chantman, but very soon the crew who had been save the mark

put in a place of safety lost sight of her. They assumed that she had shared the fitte of so many other fine ships of the British Merchant Fleet. Six days later, however, the disdale was sighted by the steam ship Basuto

rades of the great brotherhood of the sea.

of enemy nationality towards com While the Ainsdale was being brought to

an operation

was inflicted on the engineering works at and Jews delight to honour. The prayer lessness in general. He told me that you the case of some

Bruges.

We brought down three enemy machines in flames and drove down three uncon- trollable Three of ours are missing.

invoking blessings on the pilgrims included one for all the communities in Palestine and one for the prosperity of

the present rulers of the country.

BISHOP ON MARRIAGE,

Meanwhile our aircraft sighted and attacked a submarine and located several A BETKOTHAL SERVICE. enemy mines during patrols in the North Sea. They also sighted a Zeppelin, but a seaplane was unable to overtake and engage it effectively.

One seaplane is missing. General.

EARLIER CABLES. [THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]

The National Council of Public Morals held a conference at the Caxton Hall poently on the Ethics and Future of

had been fing along at a great height on 15 fast scout dreaming about home he was. And & Gerry got on his tail before he woke up. He finished the fight with a bullet in the side, but he made the Gerry fier crash in the end. He said if it hadn't been for carelessness, he'd have come off scot,free.

INFANTRY ADMIRE, THE FLYERS.

2

The way these lying chaps keep at it is absolutely marvellous. There's that can stop them from going un. Bain nothing in

the way of weather, seemingly, show, hail and fog, any old thing they Face They fly low or high fight any thing on the ground or in the air, any in the trenches would do anything

13

time in

second shot was.

A merchant ship on the highway of commerce, without apparently a living soul on board, in a thing of suspicion in rutes in order to decoy unsuspecting these days. The enemy adopts many sailors to their ruin.

master of Basta oyed this drifting vessel with suspicion; a conferetice was held to decide

Marriage. The Bishop of Birmingham time. Ws ch them, given the chan whether the risk should be run of an

denounced the changes in the marriage. law which were being advocated as con- trary to the true ideal of marriage. He complained of the Churches that they did

on Le Cateau, St, Quentin and Valen-resumed with great intensity during last IRELAND'S PART IN THE WAR not take the case they should in regard

wiennes railway stations.

>All our night-diers returned.

CONSIDERABLE ARTILLERY:

FIRING.

Lospos, June 4th.

12.30 p.m. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- ©ports;~~We captured a few-prisoners in

ere in

an successful raid at night on June 3rd

westward of Merville,

We repulsed an attack on a new post westward of Vieux Berquin, taking prisoners.

There was considerable hostile artil. lery bring this morning between Albert

and the Serre....

LATEST CABLES.

ENEMY'S THRUST DEFINITELY CHECKED.

night and to-day.

The Germans with fresh forces, at- tacked between the Oise and the Oureg with redoubled violence,

North of the Aisne their attacks were directed against Mont-de-Chaisy, which, for the fifth time, we recaptured.

t

All other enemy attempts between the Oise and the Aisme, especially north of Moulin-sous-Touvent and Vingre, wers in

vain.

Between the Aise and the Ourcq the Germans attempted desperate efforts to penetrate the forest of Villers-Cotterets

PROCLAMATION BY VISCOUNT

FRENCH.

LONDON, June it5.

I've seen a few attacks in my time, and to board her, and, volunteers being called proaching her. At last it was decided I've seen the work the flying chaps do. for, Chief Oficer Macdonald-surely Why, I've seen one of them almost sit on Bent with a Crow of doght-surely a the barrage, spotting for the gans.proached the Ainsdale. No sign of for me this packet," he said cat, a partots and a monkey her sid like these chaps, but I don't envy the treachery was noticed, so they went on their job. Solid ground's good enough board, to find her deserted, except for a

For 1 got answer to a question, during a Gerthither, with this strange complement man attack-well, it was more of a raid The steering wheel had gone, having evi than an attack. We've nothing to learn dently been shot away, and the standard now from the the

compass was broken. An e Time was when situation. matrimony involved. He way old attacking or raid Fries in the way of fuckioned enough to wish that there could we weren't above picking up a wrinkle undismayed, though the

two from them, but that's past. We're ed a crew of twenty-five to manage still be some solemn service of betrothal

Macdonald, who alone knew anything take her into

decided that he would and risk for himself and bis companions.

to advising, sometimes perhap, restrain Fang, young peop from taking upon them lightly, the solemn responsibilities

the

embarrassing men were

But these addle to her.

Mr.

Viscount French has issued a proclama-before marriage took place. As to eat his . I think the Boche must An attempt to tow her failed, 30 of

for

navigation forty over the labour

wits end

new dodges tian as follows:-In pursuance of our divorce, the two sexta must be treated

GERMAN FLAME-ATTACK. promises, we now make an offer, which, with absolute equality, and its great cost day it the German Hame-machine. It The Bastito parted company,

He had the nerve to attack the other with flame throwers. I don't think if successful, will ensure that Ireland to the poor swept away. More than hun't enough range to count though marke

much will play her part fully and freely in the once during his hospital visiting soldiers can be annoying enough. well what was

They strafed

+

myage of the and the en World's struggle for liberty The offer had told him it seemed so impossible to we know with minnies, off and on, and desperate undertaking.

Coming))

The

us all We

up

began It must have Old

in experience. By

the

eloventh day 711 now a that remained of the ship's provisions were some biscuits a meagre fare for it. He start tinics their number, w

with the

chrono

to something.

the

we make is that Ireland should volun- get rid of an unfaithful wife by legal | Gerry doesn't waste tarily furnish the number of men requir means that they were tempted to find the days unless he's up ed to establish na equitable ratio when gallows Unless they could get some wedteady and waiting when he came, nine men doing the work ef two or compared with all other parts of the Emunion between Church and Stato ed off with his flame-throwers before he ter run down and

untrust compasses came over the but

top,

the jetë weren't worthy Eailors are modest, silent. In order to establish that ratio thought the eventual solution a logica epen. Then of course the men with were the thoughts of First Officer Mine: anything near us until he got out into people, and we may never know what the one would have 10 be a civil marriage the jets were an easy mark and we nailed donald and bis tren as the damaged

snil-

we took five prisoners and left a few tag, the frying It was noceptu, na

from the north and east. FRENCH INFLICT BLOODY LOSSES P.

Our troops heroically withstood the shock of the enemy's forces on this front and broke their advance, inflicting bloody

lotses

Ireland can fairly be asked to raise 50,000 recruits before, October 1st to re Ficnish the Irish Divisions in the Beld,

and after that date to raise.: 23,000

monthly, in order to maintain those divi- sions. That is what we ask Ireland to do

**We wish to make it quite clear to

for all parties, with a religious ceremony for those only to whom that ceremony

bad a meaning

*

Clasprow

a few.

raid failed before it cam ing ship laboriously cut her furrow to our lines, and the only result was that through the water. At last, R.

Baszerek, hove in

eight therman dead in No Man's Land and offered a tow.

the Gerries we took was car who would not in such circumstances have ying a tank on his back, and he was welcomed such aid? But a heavy sch had to wounded. I'd got in the way of a Gervas turning and the operation man Grenade

· 80 there we were boche/to the Flying Huzzard seek-

and comfortable ang

That inc

incident in itself con- this Gerry and 1,

the dressing station. "He talked Eng- veya a vivid impression of the

everyone that there is no intention to die who had more gifts as novelist, than in and I told him what a footling thing with which Mr. Macdonald w

turb the farming interests, food produc- tion nor to do anything which would ham We recaptured Faverolles by a vigorous per or curtail the essential industry of the counter-attack

country. It is not expected that many of There is no change between the Ourcq the rural population will be available for and the Marne.

military purposes, and the Government look almost entirely to the large num her of young men in towns, who are in far greater number

LONDON, June 1th.

7.60 a.m.

West of Soissons the enemy was checked Yesterday's news was the most satia

east of Pernant, also further south on factory since May 27th. The reports have

the general line Saconin-Missy-Aug- been growing brighter during the past

Beis Vaucatile and the eastern edge of two days, but yesterday was the first indication that the enemy is being de Betz forest and Troesnes. faitaly checked. The entry of Generalis- simo Foch's reserves is undoubtedly taking effect. The recapture of Mont de Choisy is most important, for it is one of the main bastions defending the Fold to Paris by way of Compiegne, while the repulse of enemy attempts to enter lovest of Betz in front of Villers-Cot- terets is no less significant, for it is now ow evident that the enemy's plan is to cap ture the forest-clad heights of Villers Cotterets and Compiegne, then to enclose Paris inside an enormous salient by way of the valleys of the Oise, the Ourcq and

the Marne

It is in pursuit of this object that the enemy is now trying desperately to free the left wing on the Marne. His front here is very narrow, barely fifteen milee, namely, between Chateau Thierry and Laferte Milon, and as it is impossible to manœuvre an immense army for assault on such a front without exposing. t to an enormous risk, the Crown Prince is striving to widen his front, but in

effectually, as it appears. If the Ger mans are now brought to a standstill, as the Allied opinion is confident they will be,

In the region south of Ville en Tardenois the French and British troops maintained all their gains north of Champlat.

Principal Forsyth found in literature a conspiracy to justify and almost to consecrate laxity. There were novelists

sight as moralists.

Dr. Horton declared that multitudes of children to day wore brought up in Families where men and wife treated each other with indifference, a disaster to society.

Bishop Welldon agreed, in regard to divorce, that there should be all round equality. Admissible grounds of divorce

Jish

his fame-gadget was. He believed meed So the Ameinde continued to drift, and cursed his luck that he bad to carry her sails hanging from her maste ju rib- On the following morning, with the thing just as I said, the flame- bons thrower is an easy mark for the chap the assistance of patrol boats, which had that's quick on the trigger. I've seen a seen her distress, some sails were set, and heen more or less pleased to be taken, but on the scene and the voyage was con few German prisoners, and they've all then the Flying Buzzard again appeared this fellow boat the lot. He was fed up plete

pleted.

That is a story which will do with the war, but thought it was soon

well as going to finish through the Russian These were ordinary British seamen who

the Germans,

onreclves good negotiations was glad to be taken. happened to be at hand when the trial

thought that he'd and for the three be safer in Eng of character and skill came, and they responded to the call of the moment. Are they of the stuff the

the ignorant and

in France until he wa

was botter

bo

ago

EU

than in his opinion were pre-nuptial unchas didn't want to cop out in the last root desperate enemy pictured a foar is required to carry on the ordinary tity and adultery, incurable insanity, and told him that he'd probably of this when the mere threat of piracy was

cruelty. If he admitted another, it would back near the bases. He was glad to know would our defeat the

marriage to a German or Austrian fire zone, and I gather his own people penalty of que seamen's

wa Kept no prisoners anywhere near the

During June 1st and 2nd 29 Gorman retail trade, to furnish the necessary con aeroplanes were shot down, 24 were driven tingent As is done in England, Boot down out of control, and 130 tons of ex land and Wales, we propose, first, to plosives were dropped on enemy depots, call the younger men and those who can convoys and troops. Anti-aircraft gans best be spared to come forward to fight destroyed another four enemy aeroplanes, for their Motherland. BATTLE CONTINUES DESPERATE.The age limit of the present appeal,

LATER

therefore, is fixed between 18 and 27, communiqué states --Between the This is not intended to preclude older men from coming forward who may be Dise and the Aisne the enemy were held

(en the whole) prolonged intolerable wound, and then he set to work away convert the high sens into a dreary

husband.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said the Eng-

ligh divorce lawe were the strictes, of and Protestant country. Those who thought with him were trying to bring our divorce procedure, to-day the most back ward, into line with the average Protest ant country. The Church apparently

SPOTH

So

particular

THINGS IN GERMANY,

were

the fruits of fear

The cowardice? Gerinans have learnt a good deal of the

beginning of last

ar psychology of Gerry was very frank about how in ships since the men who go down the letters to go from home "scare ma pothe day we qualit knowlill being given. of grouse and grumble about the food for the present allogo wil be wet, 16, but and a lot of illness. Saxony, and it seems that there they Fryatt,

His folk Lived in must remember the end of Captain be satisfied with such chance make a lot of Ince and things of that records as that move published And for Borts

but grow little food All these the rest, let us bear in mind that this things are stopped since the and is of incidents wherever it has been possible, the stitute the war record of the high one iato munition Navy in the ordeal through which is is

uy by e25 capigetic resistance and made specially fitted for military service, or was going to oppose them. Women held machines are are turved passing with such fine courage and fun-

no progress.

Between the Aisne and the Oure the battle continued from evening all night with equal desperation. From seven o'clock in the evening violent attacks

who are animated with the desire to serve their country in the field. We recognise that the men who come forward to fight for the Motherland are entitled to share all the Motherland can offer, and steps ere, therefore, being taken to ensure a

in bondage and torture turned to them

machines. The to death most,

to do the petency -Daily Telegraph. roughert work to

barest living From what he said I indge the Prus

from the Church, for all the Church had to say to them was Bear it. If we as grow all the food and won't orice and they're worse off than anybody... în other States have it except at a huge price the way of food. Their strength before bate the Prussians worse than ever.

profiteering,

they are. So the Saxons the war has turned into a weakness, sơ the fame thrower chap, The Saxons y de Inished was saying

it's this wa according to to speak int

to couldn't help nghing at this are the hardest working among the Ger that the Saxons and the workpeople all

have got 200,000 grates in France what we want is 200,000 cradles in England (he added). I am out to get a large number of people married who cannot at present marry on account of our preposterous

occurred in the region of Pernant far as possible that the land will be aveslaw. (Hear, hear.) mans, and their manufactures have help over Germany were so fed up with the

Baconin-Missy-Aux Bois Troesnes

Pernant fell into the enemy's hands,

there is likely to be a prolonged conten after an obstinate defence in which the tive measures are now under considerer make a better England. When they started to fight for their rights, and after the war there's going to be a bloody

east of Paris in further pursuit of the aim to destroy the French armies and bring batteries to bear on the city,

enemy lost heavily.

Farther south we yielded a little ground west of Saconin and Missy-Aux- Pois

ed a lot to make Germany rich It Lady Rucker argued that lifelong mar- able for those men who have fought 19 riage was the ideal to be worked for, and the Saxons that started the trades away they were trated by the land-owners their country, and the necessary legisla that the loosening of the marriage tie that way has gone by the board since the that he would be prepared to expect any

in Germany,

but all they're ever won in and the farmers and the manufacturers, opening the way to self-indulgence would war. They're worse off than when they thing wech

watch, Englishman, he said, looked at the Prussian soldier they saw they're pretty sick about it. The Saxons some of the result of the concubinage turn out more work for their population row in Germany with the people I permitted by Germany after the Thirty than any State in Germany, so he said, That's exactly what he said, and to hear Tears War.

that cute word coming from & Cerry (Continued at foot of next column) well, it was pretty quaint."

tion.

Recruiting will be in civilian bands, and steps will be taken to secure that fairplay shall be meted out to all."